The only consistent and enduring differences I’ve noticed between Brits and Americans:

- Americans are less aggressive (I feel miles safer walking round Manhattan drunk on Saturday night at 3am than I do walking round ANY provincial town in the UK at the same time – to be blunt, there’s just less aggro-seeking vermin about)
- Americans are much less unjustifiably nasty to people and don’t even know what class conscious is
- Brits are less robotic and are far more receptive to humour (and humor, too)
- Brits are more willing to acknowledge they don’t know something, or they’re wrong. They much less often default to cast-iron certainty on any and all subjects about which they know precisely nothing
- Americans are LOUD and don’t care how much it intrudes on your personal space, but….
- Americans seem (on the surface at least) to be much more tolerant of each others’ selfishness than Brits would be, but….
- Brits are *far* more indifferent and laid-back to how people live their lives (religion, sex and relationships, etc.) and…
- Brits seem to have *far* better race-relations, but then I’m only speaking as one half of that race equation, of course, so I admit I could be very wrong about that.

I wish I could find a country that has the best of everything in the list. I’ve never been to Australia, maybe that’s the promised land….. )

Right, let’s see what y’all make of that….